‘You can’t have diverse video games without diverse people making them’ Since well before Lara Croft raided her first tomb in 1996, the video games industry has been weighed down by stereotypical images of gamers, often deservedly. For most of its history, players were widely seen as socially isolated, daylight-shy white males. But it’s now [...]

When I grow up I want to be… You might suppose that in today’s Insta world, where six of the seven largest companies are tech giants and Google has passed its 21st birthday, something digital, something tech, something 21st century might feature in the top career aspirations of today’s teenagers … but you’d be wrong.   [...]

Interview: Ivan Kayima, CEO of careers platform 'spiela' WHAT DO YOU DO?   I am the CEO of spiela, a social marketplace network connecting young people to opportunities, jobs and key access to industries.   HOW DID YOU GET TO WHERE YOU ARE TODAY?   Through mentoring, a good support network and a strong work [...]

Interview: Jonathan Brown, digital marketing consultant at Vodafone Group WHAT DO YOU DO?   I work at Vodafone Group as a Digital marketing consultant. I work across 22 countries across EMEA and APAC. The role entails supporting and enabling marketing technology teams to get the best out of their marketing solutions.   HOW DID YOU [...]

Interview: Caroline Keep We caught up with Caroline Keep, education consultant and founder of the UK's first school MakerSpace, to find out what her working day is like, the digital skills she uses and what advice she’d give to young people looking to enter the digital sector. Caroline has also created a challenge brief for [...]

Interview: Nicole Ponsford, CEO and Co-Founder of The Gender Equality Collective DESCRIBE YOUR JOB...   You could say that my real job is being a parent to twin boy/girl preschoolers and an energetic primary school-aged son (!) however, my once-side-hustle ‘job’ - that has now become the main bread and butter - is leading our [...]

Working better: three ways to improve labour market information for young peopleTechPathways London’s Caitlin McMillan spent a day at Nesta’s Working Better conference and came back with three key messages for improving careers information and advice in the 21st-century jobs market. Exploring labour market information at Nesta's Work Better event.   How we can anticipate [...]

Interview: George Ornbo, chief technology officer at Clearmatics WHAT DO YOU DO?   I'm the chief technology officer at Clearmatics, which is a core blockchain infrastructure company. We design and build protocols for permissioned  blockchain networks. The company was founded in 2015 and was originally a research collaboration between CEO Robert Sams and UBS. The [...]

Interview: Sèan Brazier, head of device management at the Parliamentary Digital Service DESCRIBE YOUR JOB   The Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS) supports all users at Parliament, across the country. My team (currently 11 people) manage the hardware catalogue (what computers, tablet and smartphones are available), getting operating systems onto these and applications onto those, plus [...]

Interview: Haydn Corrodus, Arts Council social media tech champion We caught up with Haydn Corrodus, social media tech champion for the Digital Culture Network in Arts Council England, to find out what his working day is like, the digital skills he uses and what advice he'd give to young people looking to enter the digital [...]